Humans had probably moved to being nomadic rather than living in caves by the time wolves had been domesticated into dogs, but there might have been some overlap between the two groups.
The russians have been domesticating wild red foxes since the 1950 with visible success. Thats within the lifetime of two human generations.
Dogs are said to have been domesticated multiple times, both deliberately and self-imposed.
I can definitely see a caveman domesticating animals over very few generations
I once heard someone say dogs domesticated us, not the other way around. We were played, bro!
I’d say it’s more of a symbiotic relationship.
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Dogs didn’t selectively breed us for specific physical and behavioral traits.
Domestication of dogs is said to be around 15,000 years ago and “caveman” refers to humans in the paleolithic which is between 3.3 million and 11,700 years ago. So there’s a few thousand years where technically a “caveman” could have a pet dog.
Domestication of cats occurred around 9,500 years ago so past the cutoff for caveman.
To add, cats partnerships with humanity came with agriculture which is post caveman.
Cats were like… get a proper house and some animals that do milk and I’ll think about moving in 😤
it depends on the time period, and there weren’t ever really “cave people” about two million years ago homo erectus (upright man) evolved from a close primate relative, early on like primates they lived in the jungles or plains of Africa, humans were persistence predators meaning we cant outpace a bison but we can follow it until it collapses from exhaustion, we also gathered nuts berries and insects. over time different species of humans emerged like: homo florensis, homo rudolfensis, and homo neanderthalensis, at some point about two hundred thousand years ago the earth was shared by nearly twenty human species who all showed tool usage and language. at the same time homo sapiens (shamelessly named “wise man”) split from homo neanderthalensis as homo sapiens spread across the globe the other human species began to disappear along with all megafauna (like the giant sloth, or the mammoth) sometime ten thousand years ago homo sapiens was the last species of human left on the planet, we had also recently developed agriculture. we domesticated dogs before we developed agriculture, so we had “pets” since around sixteen thousand years ago, and it wasn’t cavemen, it was hunter gatherers.
Lots and lots of domesticated lice.
Thanks, I hate it.
Fun fact there are animals known as face mites living in your skin right now. I hope you have good day 😊.
If that isn’t existential, I’m not sure what is. 😬
